SCHEDULE 13G  
  
Amendment No.   
Vodafone Group Public Limited Company  
American Depository Receipt  
Cusip # 92857T107  
Filing Fee: Yes  
 
 
Cusip # 92857T107  
Item 1:	Reporting Person - FMR Corp. - (Tax ID:  04-2507163)  
Item 4:	Commonwealth of Massachusetts  
Item 5:	321,640  
Item 6:	28,000  
Item 7:	15,495,770  
Item 8:	28,000  
Item 9:	15,526,770  
Item 11:	14.68%  
Item 12:	HC   
  
  
 
 
Cusip # 92857T107  
Item 1:	Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d   
Item 4:	United States of America  
Item 5:	55,500  
Item 6:	28,000  
Item 7:	15,495,770  
Item 8:	28,000  
Item 9:	15,526,770  
Item 11:	14.68%  
Item 12:	IN   
  
 
 
Cusip # 92857T107  
Item 1:	Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson   
Item 4:	United States of America  
Item 5:	0  
Item 6:	0  
Item 7:	15,495,770  
Item 8:	0  
Item 9:	15,526,770  
Item 11:	14.68%  
Item 12:	IN   
  
 
 
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS  
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)  
  
  
Item 1(a).	Name of Issuer:  
  
		Vodafone Group Public Limited Company  
  
Item 1(b).	Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:  
  
		The Courtyard, 2-4 London Road, Newbury  
		Berkshire RG14 1JX, England    
  
Item 2(a).	Name of Person Filing:   
  
		FMR Corp.  
  
Item 2(b).	Address or Principal Business Office or, if None, Residence:  
  
		82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts  02109  
  
Item 2(c).	Citizenship:  
  
		Not applicable  
  
Item 2(d).	Title of Class of Securities:  
  
		American Depository Receipt  
  
Item 2(e).	CUSIP Number:    
  
		92857T107  
  
Item 3.	This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b) and the  
person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company in accordance  
with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G).  (Note:  See Item 7).  
  
Item 4.	Ownership  
  
	(a)	Amount Beneficially Owned: 
	15,526,770  
  
	(b)	Percent of Class: 
	14.68%  
  
	(c)	Number of shares as to which such person has:    
  
	(i)	sole power to vote or to direct the vote: 
	321,640  
  
	(ii)	shared power to vote or to direct the vote: 
	28,000  
  
	(iii)	sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: 
	15,495,770  
  
	(iv)	shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: 
	28,000  
  
  
 
 
Item 5.	Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.  
  
	Not applicable.  
  
Item 6.	Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person.  
  
	Various persons have the right to receive or the power to  
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the  
sale of, the American Depository Receipt of Vodafone Group  
Public Limited Company.  The interest of one person, Fidelity  
Advisor Growth Opportunities Portfolio, an investment company  
registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, in the  
American Depository Receipts of Vodafone Group Public Limited  
Company, amounted to 7,272,900 American Depository Receipts or  
6.88% of the total outstanding American Depository Receipts at  
April 30, 1996.    
  
Item 7.	Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired  
the Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding Company.  
  
	See attached Exhibit(s) A and B.  
  
Item 8.	Identification and Classification of Members of the Group.  
  
	Not applicable, see attached Exhibit A.   
  
Item 9.	Notice of Dissolution of Group.  
  
	Not applicable.  
  
Item 10.	Certification.  
  
	By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge  
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in  
the ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the  
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or  
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and  
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any  
transaction having such purpose or effect.  
  
  
Signature  
  
	After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and  
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this  
Schedule 13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial  
ownership of the American Depository Receipt of Vodafone Group  
Public Limited Company at April 30, 1996 is true, complete and  
correct.   
  
  
  
	May 9, 1996	  
Date  
  
  
  
	/s/Arthur S. Loring  
Signature  
  
  
	Arthur S. Loring, Vice  
President	  
Name/Title  
 
 
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS  
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)  
  
	Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, Fidelity  
Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,  
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment  
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,  
is the beneficial owner of 15,048,330 American Depository Receipts or 14.23%  
of the American Depository Receipts outstanding of Vodafone Group Public  
Limited Company ("the Company") as a result of acting as investment adviser to  
various investment companies registered under Section 8 of the Investment  
Company Act of 1940.    
  
	The ownership of one investment company, Fidelity Advisor Growth  
Opportunities Portfolio, amounted to 7,272,900 American Depository Receipts or  
6.88% of the American Depository Receipts outstanding.  Fidelity Advisor  
Growth Opportunities Portfolio has its principal business office at 82  
Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109.    
  
	Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and the  
funds each has sole power to dispose of the 15,048,330 American Depository  
Receipts owned by the Funds.  
  
	Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman of FMR Corp., has  
the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the American Depository  
Receipts owned directly by the Fidelity Funds, which power resides with the  
Funds' Boards of Trustees.  Fidelity carries out the voting of the American  
Depository Receipts under written guidelines established by the Funds' Boards  
of Trustees.  
  
	Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,  
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as  
defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the  
beneficial owner of 391,940 American Depository Receipts or 0.37% of the  
American Depository Receipts outstanding of the Company as a result of its  
serving as investment manager of the institutional account(s).    
  
	Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity  
Management Trust Company, has sole dispositive power over 391,940 American  
Depository Receipts and sole power to vote or to direct the voting of 266,140  
American Depository Receipts, and no power to vote or to direct the voting of  
125,800 American Depository Receipts owned by the institutional account(s) as  
reported above.  
  
	Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family and trusts for their benefit  
are the predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of FMR Corp.,  
representing approximately 49% of the voting power of FMR Corp.  Mr. Johnson  
3d owns 12.0% and Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding  
voting stock of FMR Corp.  Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. and Abigail  
P. Johnson is a Director of FMR Corp.  The Johnson family group and all other  
Class B shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under  
which all Class B shares will be voted in accordance with the majority vote of  
Class B shares.  Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common stock  
and the execution of the shareholders' voting agreement, members of the  
Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to  
form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.  The number of shares of  
American Depository Receipts of the Company reported herewith includes 86,500  
American Depository Receipts or 0.08% of American Depository Receipts owned  
directly by Edward C. Johnson 3d or in trusts for the benefit of Edward C.  
Johnson 3d or an Edward C. Johnson 3d family member for which Edward C.  
Johnson 3d serves as trustee  
  
	Edward C. Johnson 3d has sole voting and dispositive power over 55,500  
American Depository Receipts, shared voting and dispositive power over 28,000  
American Depository Receipt, and no voting or dispositive power over 3,000  
American Depository Receipts.  
  
 
 
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS  
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)  
  
RULE 13d-1(f)(1)  AGREEMENT  
  
	The undersigned persons, on May 9, 1996, agree and consent to the joint  
filing on their behalf of this Schedule 13G in connection with their  
beneficial ownership of the American Depository Receipts of Vodafone Group  
Public Limited Company at April 30, 1996.  
  
	FMR Corp.  
	By	/s/Arthur S. Loring  
Arthur S. Loring 
Vice President - Legal  
	Edward C. Johnson 3d  
	By	/s/Arthur S. Loring  
Arthur S. Loring 
Under Power of Attorney dated  
5/17/89 
On File with Schedule 13G for 
Airborne Freight Corp. 9/10/91   
  
	Abigail P. Johnson  
  
  
	By	/s/Arthur S. Loring  
Arthur S. Loring 
Under Power of Attorney dated  
1/5/96 
On File with Schedule 13G for 
Acclaim Entertainment Inc.  
1/10/96  
	Fidelity Management & Research Company  
	By	/s/Arthur S. Loring  
Arthur S. Loring 
Sr. V.P. and General Counsel  
	Fidelity Advisor Growth Opportunities  
Portfolio  
	By	/s/Arthur S. Loring  
Arthur S. Loring 
Secretary